Erhadt crashes out

Bangalore, Oct 26: German left-hander Andy Fahlke turned Hungarian Zoltan Boroczky’s world upside down as he pulled off a three-set win in the first round of the Wearhouse ITF Satellite tennis tournament at the Century Club courts on Monday.Fahlke, after losing the first set, steadied himself considerably against the grunting Hungarian.

He carved out a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory that puts him against the winner of the first round match between top seed Prahlad Srinath and Marian Leysek of Slovakia.Earlier, there were three upsets, with the fifth seeded Patrick Erhardt being the highest ranked player to bow out.ResultsSandeep Kirtane (Ind) bt Rishi Sridhar (Ind) 6-3, 6-2; Zaman Sanzaruz (Ind) bt Kamala Kannan (Ind) 7-6 (7-4), 6-1; Ondrej Chvapil (Cze) bt Anjan Viplav (Ind) 6-4, 6-7 (7-5), 6-3; Vijendra Laad (Ind) bt Vijay Kannan (Ind) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2; Vinod Sridhar (Ind) bt Andrew Ford (Britain) 6-1, 6-1; Mike Boulding (Britain) bt Saurav Panja (Ind) 6-3, 6-2; Harsh Mankad (Ind) bt Ravikiran Bhat (Ind) 6-2, 6-4;Danai Udomchoke (Thai) bt Vasudeva Reddy (Ind) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Nitin Kirtane (Ind) bt SB Keerthi (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Mustafa Ghouse (Ind) bt Patrick Erhardt (Ger) 6-1, 7-6 (8-6); S Praveen Kumar (Ind) bt Timo Nigri (Ger) 6-3, 6-2; Andy Fahlke (Ger) bt Zoltan Boroczky (Hungary) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.